Settler Meaning and Definition in Wikipedia

A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and made a permanent home there. Many times the reason is to colonize the area.

Many times in history settlers live on land which used to belong to people who had lived there a long time. These people are known as indigenous people. Other names are natives, Aborigines or, in the Americas, Indians. This land is usually settled against the wishes of the indigenes. It is then controlled, defended and grown by force.

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Settler group under fire for video depicting Israeli leftists as anti-Semite collaborators An Israeli settler group is under fire for releasing a YouTube video portraying Israeli leftists as collaborators with European anti-Semites. Read more on this news related to 'Settler'

Israeli right scrambles to woo settler vote Nearly 200,000 Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank are eligible to vote in Israel's general election on Tuesday, with their ballots likely to return four rightwingers to parliament. The ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party led by Naftali Bennett, a former head of the Yesha Settlers' Council, is just one of the parties expected to benefit from their su Read more on this news related to 'Settler'

Palestinian gets two life terms for Israeli settler murder An Israeli military court has handed down two terms of life imprisonment to a Palestinian who stabbed to death a Jewish woman settler, an army spokeswoman told AFP on Friday. The court on Thursday sentenced Maher al-Hashlamoun, a member of Islamic Jihad from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, after previously convicting him of murdering Dalia Lemkus, 26, as sh Read more on this news related to 'Settler'